Update A day after the race, Paula Ryan still hadn’t conceded to Jeri Muoio. Instead, Ryan supporters discovered 224 registered voters in the city that had been mistakenly grouped as unincorporated county voters. An attorney speaking for Ryan supporters suggested a new election, but Muoio and Mayor Lois Frankel believed it would be costly and wouldn’t change the results. Click here for the story.

According to the final tallies, Muoio finished with 51.1 percent of the vote, and Ryan was second with 23.3 percent. Had Muoio received less than 50 percent of the votes, she and Ryan would have been in a two-week runoff. All of the candidates were expecting a runoff.

But Rebecca Shelton, Ryan’s campaign manager, has been on the phone with the Supervisor of Election’s Office this morning, believing that the percentages in the final four precincts might not have been accurate.

Shelton said she arrived at the Supervisor of Election’s office just after 1 a.m., but the office was already locked down with the lights off.

“We want to find out exactly what happened with the last four,” Shelton said. “Altogether, we had some reports early in the day that in precinct 2090, votes weren’t tallying. I made a ticket complaint early in the morning, they said I’d get a call back, and I never did. I want to resolve it.
“We want to know if (Supervisor of Elections Susan Bucher) can tell us that it’s all correct, and nothing changed at all that could bring Jeri to 49.9 percent (which would force a runoff).”

West Palm Beach City Clerk Joanna Sharp said she didn’t know of any complaints filed on Tuesday. Bucher said all complaints are filed into a computer system, and she would check to see if the complaint was made.

Bucher said on Tuesday morning that Ryan’s campaign is welcomed to come to the headquarters and review the final results.